By making a planeload of staff and reporters into unwitting decoys as they departed a NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, President Donald Trump presented America and the world with a profile in cowardice.

Just imagine the delight of the mullahs of Iran when they learned this week that what was described as a “credible threat” caused Trump to secretly switch planes on the tarmac in Ankara by sneaking onto a catering container.

If there had indeed been a threat, the perpetrators would have been led to believe their singular target was aboard. Everybody else on the plane would have been collateral damage.

Back in April, Trump boasted that in his war of choice with Iran, “We can do whatever we want.”

His secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, declared in March that our warfighters were establishing “total dominance.” Hegseth said the conflict’s timeline “is ours and ours alone.”

That sound you can now hear is of mullahs laughing.

As everyone now knows, Trump initially sought to cover up his return from Turkey with compound lies, at first saying that he had decided not to return on the new Air Force One so service members in........

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